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Limax ecarinatus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Limacidae

Scientific name
  
Limax ecarinatus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Limacoidea

Subfamily
  
Limacinae

Rank
  
Species

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Limax ecarinatus (also known as Limacus maculatus when the subgenus Limacus is elevated to the generic level), is a large species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

This species is synanthropic. It is most likely to be confused with Limax flavus, which it somewhat resembles.

Distribution

This species occurs in: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and western Russia. It has spread to

  • Great Britain, for example in Worcestershire, England.
  • Ireland
  • Ukraine
  • and other areas
  • References

    Limax ecarinatus Wikipedia